Reaching out to our Mentors

Lately we have been trying to reach out to our mentors. We have two mentors, one is our school counselor to help us with information that we will need, and Mrs. Draper, our school’s ASL teacher. Lately we have heard some feedback from our school counselor, and we have been getting information about the Deaf students in the Salinas Union High School District. We have learned that there is a Deaf student program at North High, and surprisingly there isn’t an ASL class. We are still trying to wrap our heads around that.

Some challenges that we are facing is finding some time to sit down and talk to Mrs. Draper because her office hour is Wednesday during lunch. We have gone but she was absent those three weeks we have attempted to talk. We have been emailing her and we are going to send her our What is Deaf Culture presentation to get feedback on what needs to be changed before we present it.

We finally met up with Mrs. Draper on Wednesday. We talked about our project and she was super excited to see how our project would turn out. To help give us more information, she gave us packets on finger spelling and signs. She also gave us a packet on inspirational and important people in the Deaf Culture.

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Deaf Language

Lately we have been finishing up the presentation. We are proud to say that it is finished and looking its best. There is plenty of great information about Deaf culture and History. We also included influencial people of Deaf history. We learned that many Deaf people fought for their rights because they weren’t seen as equals. All the research we have done not only is beneficial for our audience but for us too. We learn a lot as we go and I think it’s an amazing process.

We also have been working on ASL. We are learning how to fingerspell the alphabet. We are no pros, but we are improving. I got plenty of help from friends that are in ASL and a friend that is from a Deaf family. It was a great help  because we are so close to memorizing the alphabet and we are almost getting there with practice and determination. After that, are next goal is to learn how to introduce ourselves in ASL.

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